Love and Hate relationship with FFXIV

[Canopia]

If you dont like to read a mountain of text, then Final Fantasy (of any numbered variety) is definitely not the game for you. Whether of the 8bit NES era or the current era, all the games are veritable novels of text you have to read through, even if some of the stuff is voice acted.

[Skivvy]

If you dont like to read a mountain of text, then Final Fantasy (of any numbered variety) is definitely not the game for you. Whether of the 8bit NES era or the current era, all the games are veritable novels of text you have to read through, even if some of the stuff is voice acted.

This doesn't really hold true when you're talking about an MMO. Despite what a lot of people on these forums believe, the story is only one small part of the game. Plenty of other things that lure people to XIV, so while they may not enjoy how XIV tells it's story, the game can most definitely be for them.

[Selova]

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It's a story heavy and story driven mmo, the type of genre has nothing to do with it. The story will always be the driving force behind any FF title, MMO or otherwise. If FF didn't have any story or focus on it, it's nothing more than a instanced group simulator given how barren non-instanced content is. I'm not saying people playing the game who don't care about the story are wrong or their reasons for doing so, just that if you removed the story well....there really isn't much there unless you're the type of person who only cares about graphics and gameplay. The story in FFXIV will always be what brings people in, evenmoreso than the gameplay.

[Skivvy]

It's a story heavy and story driven mmo, the type of genre has nothing to do with it. The story will always be the driving force behind any FF title, MMO or otherwise. If FF didn't have any story or focus on it, it's nothing more than a instanced group simulator given how barren non-instanced content is. I'm not saying people playing the game who don't care about the story are wrong or their reasons for doing so, just that if you removed the story well....there really isn't much there unless you're the type of person who only cares about graphics and gameplay. The story in FFXIV will always be what brings people in, evenmoreso than the gameplay.

The genre matters very much so. The MSQ updates take maybe a few days to get through. If that is the base and core of this game, we're all in trouble. I can appreciate that people enjoy the story, but that is generally only a small part in an MMO.